FORMER NOVEMBER NINER JOHN DOLAN WINS THE MILLION DOLLAR HEATER!

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SOURCE: GULFCOASTPOKER.net, @SpamBx392

A special thank you to Ross Leitz (@SpamBx392 on Twitter) and Gene Dudek at GULFCOASTPOKER.net for their help in gathering these results.

John Dolan is the Mississippi King! Dolan defeated a star-studded final table at the Beau Rivage Resort Casino and captured the Million Dollar Heater Main Event - collecting 336K of the +1M prizepool that was up for grabs!

At the final table, Dolan - the former November Niner (2010 - Jonathan Duhamel) - had to fend off a bracelet winner (Ryan Welch), a two-time WPT Champion (Randal Flowers) a former Gulf Coast Champion (Mark Rose) and a recent WPT Regional Series winner (Daniel Clemente) - not an easy feat, that's for sure.

Surprisingly, this event marks the first significant live win of Dolan's career. His highest winning cash was in the 30K range ... although he did collect 1.7M with his 6th place finish at the 2010 Series - not bad at all!

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (in USD) 1st John Dolan 336,105 2nd Glenn Poole 185,367 3rd Kirill Kruglov 101,850 4th Mark Rose 81,480 5th Ryan Welch 61,110 6th Matt Stout 50,925 7th Dan Clemente 40,740 8th Hamib Jahangard 30,555 9th Randal Flowers 20,370 RELATED POSTS >>LOOKING FOR A HEATER IN MS >> KUZMIN WINS WPT SOUTHERN >> FLOWERS POWERS - WPT FESTA

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT The Million Dollar Heater NLH Main Event January 21-25, 2012 Beau Rivage Resort & Casino | Biloxi Buy-in: $5,175 | Prizepool: $1,018,500 Entries: 210 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION JOHN DOLAN 102 GLENN POOLE 62 KIRILL KRUGLOV 37 MARK ROSE 27 RYAN WELCH 20 MATTHEW STOUT 12 DAN CLEMENTE 10 HAMIB JAHANGARD 7 RANDAL FLOWERS 7

WELCH, DOLAN, STOUT AND FLOWERS LOOKING FOR A HEATER IN MISSISSIPPI

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It's final table time at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Mississippi as the Million Dollar Heater reaches it's final stage today in Biloxi.

We have a very impressive final table at Beau Rivage ... we have a WSOP bracelet winner, a November Niner, a two-time WPT Champion, a WPT Regional Champ and a Gulf Coast Champion all battling for the 336K top prize.

Bracelet winner Ryan Welch (pictured) is the chip leader. Welch (2011 PTPR Rank: 502nd) has a little over 870K in chips. Welch is followed closely by former November Niner John Dolan. Dolan (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) is about 20K behind the chip leader.

Two-time World Poker Tour Champion Randal Flowers is the small stack but, Flowers (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) is surely hoping his previous final table experience will help him survive today.

2010 Gulf Coast Poker Championship winner Mark Rose (2011 PTPR Rank: 1262th) and current WPT Regional Tampa Champ Daniel Clemente (2011 PTPR Rank: 836th) are two other big names to look out for later today.

FINAL TABLE CHIP COUNTS
Ryan Welch 871,000 Twitter: @gutshtallin
John Dolan 849,500 Twitter: @JRD312
Kirill Kruglov 697,500
Matt Stout 486,500 Twitter: @MattStoutPoker
Daniel Clemente 345,000
Habib Jahangard 310,000
Glenn Poole 300,000
Mark Rose 221,500
Randal Flowers 142,500 Twitter: @RandALLin

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (in USD) 1st - 336K 2nd - 185K 3rd - 101K 4th - 81K 5th - 61K 6th - 51K 7th - 40K 8th - 30K 9th - 20K EVENT COVERAGE GULF COAST POKER RELATED POSTS >> KUZMIN WINS WPT SOUTHERN >> FLOWERS POWERS - WPT FESTA

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT The Million Dollar Heater NLH Main Event January 21-25, 2012 Beau Rivage Resort & Casino | Biloxi Buy-in: $5,175 | Prizepool: $1,018,500 Entries: 210 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 102 2nd place 62 3rd place 37 4th place 27 5th place 20 6th place 12 7th place 10 8th place 7 9th place 7

ALEXANDER THE GREAT: KUZMIN WINS WPT SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIP

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Congratulations to Alexander Kuzmin, the latest winner on the World Poker Tour.

Kuzmin outlasted Leif Force and 2009 WPT Southern Poker Winner Allen Carter. Shannon Shorr finished fourth. Kuzmin scored 127 PTPR Points with his win.

Ryan Hughes (6th, 27 PTPR Points) earned PTPR Points for the second time this season.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
WPT Southern Poker Championship
World Poker Tour Main Event
January 23-27, 2011

Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
Biloxi, Mississippi, USA

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,986,100
Entries: 214

FINAL RESULTS
KUZMIN ALEXANDER 127
FORCE LEIF 77
CARTER ALLEN 47
SHORR SHANNON 37
MAHONEY PATRICK 32
HUGUES RYAN 27
MCBRAYER BJ 27
WRIGHT OTIS 12
BREAKSTONE STUART 12
COELHO VITOR 12
BLAIN DERMOT 12
ZENTNER MARTIN 10
KELLER BOBBY 10
SMITH BOB 10
SHIREY HILBERT 10
BROWN CHAD 7
SMITH JORDAN 7
ROSE MARK 7

ALLEN CARTER CHASES HISTORY AT WPT SOUTHERN TV FINAL TABLE

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We're down to six players at the WPT Southern Poker Championship at Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi - yes, that's right, it's WPT TV Final Table time!

We've got one hell of a final table setup .. Alexander Kuzmin is the chip leader, big-time pro Shannon Shorr (off a WPT final table late in 2010), Ryan Hughes, Leif Force and Patrick Mahoney are also at the final table ...

But it's Allen Carter, second in chips, that is holding everyone's attention. Carter is steps away from history. Carter won the 2009 WPT Southern Championship - he is looking to earn a second WPT Southern title in three years (Hoyt Corkins won the event last year - he scored 7 PTPR in this event) ... something that would put him in the record books for sure!


Here are the chip counts as Final Table play approaches...

1 Alexander Kuzmin 1,969,000
2 Allen Carter 1,928,000
3 Ryan Hughes 840,000
4 Leif Force 674,000
5 Shannon Shorr 663,000
6 Patrick Mahoney 394,000


And here are the winnings that the Final 6 are playing for...
1st: $584,481
2nd: $306,607
3rd: $212,208
4th: $140,926
5th: $110,103
6th: $86,985

The winner of the event will receive 127 PTPR Points.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
WPT Southern Poker Championship
World Poker Tour Main Event
January 23-27, 2011

Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
Biloxi, Mississippi, USA

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,986,100
Entries: 214

POINTS AT STAKE
1st place 127
2nd place 77
3rd place 47
4th place 37
5th place 32
6th place 27
WRIGHT OTIS 27
BREAKSTONE STUART 12
COELHO VITOR 12
BLAIN DERMOT 12
ZENTNER MARTIN 12
KELLER BOBBY 10
SMITH BOB 10
SHIREY HILBERT 10
BROWN CHAD 10
SMITH JORDAN 7
ROSE MARK 7
CORKINS HOYT 7

PTS AT STAKE: WPT SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIP IN FULL SWING

PHOTO CREDIT: BEAURIVAGE.com


It's Main Event time - The World Poker Tour hits the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino.

214 players registered for today's main - a little over 170 players are still alive after about 7 hours of play.

Gavin Smith holds the early chip lead.

Here is what we're playing for...

1st: $584,481
2nd: $306,607
3rd: $212,208
4th: $140,926
5th: $110,103
6th: $86,985
7th: $65,792
8th: $48,454
9th: $34,968
10th-12th: $24,372
13th-15th: $22,446
16th-18th: $20,519
19th-27th: $18,593

Unofficial chip counts available at the end of this post...

The winner of the event will receive 127 PTPR Points.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
WPT Southern Poker Championship
World Poker Tour Main Event
January 23-27, 2011

Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
Biloxi, Mississippi, USA

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,986,100
Entries: 214

POINTS AT STAKE
1st place 127
2nd place 77
3rd place 47
4th place 37
5th place 32
6th place 27
7th place 27
8th place 12
9th place 12
10th place 12
11th place 12
12th place 10
13th place 10
14th place 10
15th place 10
16th place 7
17th place 7
18th place 7


UNOFFICIAL CHIP COUNTS - NOTABLE PLAYERS (AS OF 8PM ET)

Gavin Smith 155,000
Andrew Lichtenberger 110,000
Jonathan Little 75,000
Ryan D'Angelo 67,000
Kyle Bowker 60,000
Jason Mercier 54,000
Chris Bell 50,000
Tom McCormick 50,000
Yuval Bronshtein 48,000
Josh Arieh 48,000
Shawn Cunix 47,000
Hoyt Corkins 45,000
Tom Braband 42,000
Micah Raskin 40,000
Ali Eslami 40,000
Chad Brown 38,000
Eric Cloutier 38,000
Tom Franklin 38,000
Joseph Cheong 35,000
Randal Flowers 35,000
Timothy Finne 34,000
Brent Roberts 33,000
Scotty Nguyen 33,000
Justin Young 32,000
Lee Markholt 32,000
Eric Baldwin 32,000
Larry Little 31,000
Jim Collopy 30,000
Michael Benvenuti 30,000
Curt Kohlberg 30,000
John Dolan 30,000
Shannon Shorr 28,000
Kara Scott 27,000
Tony Cousineau 27,000
Nick Schulman 27,000